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"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."
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"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."

"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions."

"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."

"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."
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"I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create."

"There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year."

"You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way."

"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."

"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

"Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks."
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